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lastu.

shaving (thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈlɑstu/[ˈlɑ̝s̠tu]
  1. shaving (thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material)

  2. chip (small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material, especially wood)

  3. chip (thin, crisp, baked piece of vegetable or vegetable mass; usually in compound terms with a modifier which specifies the raw material)

  4. die (oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer)

  5. synonym of novelli (“short story”)

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *lastu, equivalent to lasta (“splint”) + -u.

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